Happy Pumpkin Day

We were trying to figure out what to do for Halloween that would be fun for the kids yet would protect them from the scary parts of it. They have both been pretty sensitive to it this year. October was kind of a hard month for them because everywhere we go had skeleton and monster decorations. There is a house across the street that is a little out of control for Halloween. Tyler and Carsten call it the yucky house. Stores and most other places have creepy decorations out. A hotel we stayed in was so scary that Carsten didn't want to walk through it. And we even went to a house for a play date that was decorated so much that Tyler asked to go home and Carsten started crying when we walked up on the porch. Afterwards Tyler asked me to leave them home with Daddy next time I go there! Both of them started having bad dreams at night. Carsten started being scared to take naps in his room by himself. And Tyler told me one day that all that yucky stuff makes his insides feel dark and bad. :-( It breaks my heart to hear that because as hard as we try to protect them from it, it's just everywhere. 

All of that to say, we wanted to avoid places that might have scary costumes or decorations. We got to spend the morning carving our pumpkins and went to a costume birthday party in the afternoon, which was really fun. We talked about going to the mall with friends - but their baby decided to finally enter the world the night before (yay! :-)). So we ended up staying home, getting a pumpkin shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's and trick-or-treating at just a few of our neighbors' houses. It ended up being really fun! Full of fun memories and family time. 

Cleaning the pumpkins!

The finished product! They each chose the shapes what they wanted their pumpkins to look like. Can you tell that they are all the same shapes, just opposite? They love to be alike. :-)

My sweet little king.

And my handsome "train driver."

Cute little pumpkin.

She made a pretty adorable pea pod. She giggled and squealed the entire time we were walking around outside. She may have loved trick-or-treating more than anyone else.

Ready to go!

The much anticipated pumpkin pizza!

We tried both of the boys' old costumes on Aria. The bee really didn't fit her enough to use it. But it was cute!

This was Tyler when he wore it.

And this was Carsten in his. Hello, identical babies!